On October 28th, 2007, the Gordon Lindsay House of Prayer opened twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It is a place where hundreds of students can find solitude amidst the stirrings of dorm life on the CFNI campus. As the leadership of the school has so desired, it has become a place of intimacy with God for students and faculty alike. The GLHOP (as it is affectionately called by those who volunteer regularly) is not only a place to find personal alone time with God, but even in the beginning stages there were over forty hours a week dedicated to corporate prayer meetings.
These corporate prayer meetings consisted of student and faculty volunteers who gave sacrificially of their time each week offering their voice as a sweet fragrance before the throne of heaven in loving worship and intercession. Over one hundred people served in various positions in the House of Prayer as musicians, singers, prayer leaders, and overseers. They came in agreement with God’s heart on a variety of issues, including the campus and student life, different countries, Israel, different political and governmental issues, local church bodies, and the end-time harvest.
Jesus said “Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His Harvest.” ( Matt. 9:38 ) The House of Prayer is intimately related to CFNI’s vision of raising up and sending out laborers into the mission field. It is in the place of prayer that people grow and are nurtured to hear the voice of the Lord. The House of Prayer is a practical setting where students can take the principles they have learned in the classroom and lead other students into the presence of God and participation with His plans. There is no better training ground for the future generation of world changers.
